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Proviral Plasmids and Production of Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus

a technology of plasmids and adenovirus, which is applied in the direction of viruses/bacteriophages, applications, peptide sources, etc., can solve the problems of complexity, inability to replicate raav, and inability to produce a recombinant aav, so as to facilitate the substitution of alternative plasmid components, facilitate subcloning, and improve the efficiency of raav vector production

Active Publication Date: 2014-03-27
THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA
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Benefits of technology

The patent text describes a new type of vector that can help make and function rAAV vectors more efficiently. These vectors are easy to manipulate and can have different parts added to them easily. This makes it easier to produce and modify these vectors, which can help improve their function in the body.

Problems solved by technology

Therefore rAAV cannot replicate, and viruses must be assembled in packaging cell lines with the rep and cap functions supplied in trans or expressed within the packaging cell itself.
The design and construction of the components, such as the plasmids and gene expression cassettes necessary for producing a recombinant AAV, can be quite labor intensive, due to the variety of plasmids and vectors available, and the need to modify the genes to fit into the appropriate plasmids.
This complexity is further increased by pharmaceutical industry and governmental requirements that govern the process for obtaining approval of an rAAV for pharmaceutical use.

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Construction of AAV Proviral Plasmids Containing Human RdCVF1

[0103]NCBI reference NT—011295.11, Homo sapiens chromosome 19 genomic contig, GRCh37.p2 reference primary assembly contains the nucleotedoxin-like protein 1 or rod-derived cone viability factor 1 (RdCVF1). The mRNA reference sequence is NM—138454.1 (SEQ ID NO: 4).

[0104]A fragment including exon 1 with 5′ UTR as well as upstream and downstream flanking intronic sequence, with a stop codon in the downstream intron is used. Exon 1 begins at nt 21 of the genomic fragment.

[0105]Based on the reference sequences, two DNA fragments comprising the open reading frame (ORF) and a genomic fragment are synthesized by DNA2.0. The latter is synthesized as a 470 bp fragment with 5′ NotI and 3′ BamHI sites to facilitate cloning. The 357 bp ORF cDNA is synthesized with a complete Kozak consensus sequence that was partly embedded in a 5′ NotI site. The stop codon is embedded in a BclI site, followed by a BamHI site. The Bell site is inserted...

example 2

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[0107]Plasmids included the newly made AAV-hRdCVF1 proviral plasmids described in Example 1, as well as pAAV2.1 CMV.hRdCVF1 (p368), another plasmid made by the inventors, and two pcDNA3-based plasmids p452 and p488 supplied by a third party.

[0108]To determine expression levels of RdCVF1 from the plasmids, a Western blot experiment was performed as follows: 293T cells (passage number n+5) were seeded into 100 mm culture dishes. At 24 hours after seeding, the cells were approximately 30% confluent and were transfected with 25 μg / dish of endotoxin-free plasmid (Quiagen) using lipofectamine LTX (ratio 2.5 μl lipofectamine LTX per μg of plasmid).

[0109]The cell culture medium was DMEM with high glucose, no pyruvate, and 10% FBS (no antibiotic). At 6 h the medium was aspirated and replaced with 5 ml of serum-free Optimem medium per dish. 24 h post transfection, the conditioned media were collected and spun for 5 min at 1200 rpm to remove cells and debris. A protease inhib...

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Production of rAAV

[0114]As discussed in Example 2 above, human Rod-derived Cone Variability Factor 1 is introduced into p618 under control of the 49 nucleotide CMV enhancer / CMV-CBA hybrid promoter by insertion into the polylinker following digestion of p618 with the unique restriction enzymes NotI and BamHI. Following this transgene insertion, the proviral plasmid was called p625.

[0115]Proviral plasmid p625 is co-transfected into a stable rep and cap expressing host packaging cell line B-50 (International Patent Application Publication No. WO 99 / 15685) with the adenovirus E1, E2a, and E40RF6 DNA. The gene expression cassette from the proviral plasmid is packaged into AAV particles employing iodixanol gradient purification followed by herparin-sepharose agarose column chromatography. Vector titers are determined using an infectious center assay. AAV-hRdCVF1 virus preparations are made and combined to a desired total volume.

[0116]The rAAV-hRdCVF1 may be employed, for example, to trans...

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Abstract

Proviral plasmids contain a modular gene expression cassette with one or a combination of (i) a wildtype 5′ AAV2 ITR sequence flanked by unique restriction sites that permit ready removal or replacement of said ITR; (ii) a promoter flanked by unique restriction sites that permit ready removal or replacement of the entire promoter sequence; (iii) a polylinker sequence that permits insertion of a gene coding sequence without modification thereof, wherein the gene is operatively linked to, and under the regulatory control of, the aforementioned promoter; (iv) a bovine growth hormone polyadenylation sequence flanked by unique restriction sites that permit ready removal or replacement of said polyA sequence; and (v) a wildtype 3′ AAV2 ITR sequence flanked by unique restriction sites that permit ready removal or replacement of the 3′ ITR. These plasmids enable rapid manipulation of the components of the cassette, e.g., rapid mutation and / or replacement of any component, and thereby increase the efficiency of recombinant viral vector, e.g., rAAV, production.

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INCORPORATION-BY-REFERENCE OF MATERIAL SUBMITTED IN ELECTRONIC FORM[0001]Applicant hereby incorporates by reference the Sequence Listing material filed in electronic form herewith. This file is labeled “UPN-X5873PCT_ST25.txt”.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vectors have been developed for gene replacement therapy because they are non-pathogenic and exhibit a broad range of tissue specificity. These vectors generally retain the AAV inverted terminal repeats (ITRs) located at each end of a gene expression cassette, but lack the AAV rep and cap genes necessary for viral replication and packaging. Therefore rAAV cannot replicate, and viruses must be assembled in packaging cell lines with the rep and cap functions supplied in trans or expressed within the packaging cell itself. The gene expression cassette for insertion into the rAAV conventionally contains the therapeutic gene and the cis-regulatory elements including a promoter and a polyadeny...

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IPC IPC(8): C12N15/86
CPCC12N15/86C12N2750/14143C12N2750/14111C12N2750/14141C07K14/435C12N7/00C12N2750/14121C12N2750/14152C12N2800/107C12N2830/60C12N2830/90
Inventor BENNETT, JEANBENNICELLI, JEANNETTE L.
Owner THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA
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